Hearing the screams of 14-year-old lynching victim Emmett Till from inside a Mississippi barn left a teenage field hand with an unbearable choice. He could tell a courtroom and risk paying for it with his life or keep quiet and let those screams eat away at his conscience.Full story

The Cycle hosts talk to former Defense Secretary William Cohen and his wife, playwright Janet Langhart Cohen, about her new play combining the stories of historic teenage martyrs Anne Frank and Emmett Till.